@cfr BTW, I don't know if this is of interest to you, but there's been some really nice blog posts by a British linguist on a piece about women's language by Naomi Wolf in the Guardian. (Maybe you've seen this already) debuk.wordpress.com/2015/07/26/a-response-to-naomi-wolf
@cfr Yes, in fact that's about the only place that still has them, I think.
@AlanMunn Anti-women and anti-Welsh? Never knew it was called 'uptalk' but sounds very much like one characteristic of the speech of a significant proportion of the Welsh population (especially in South-East Wales which includes some of the most deprived areas in the UK). In English or Welsh, though it is linked to Welsh patterns linguistically, I believe (but don't know - just what I've heard).
I even write that way in informal contexts - not always, but sometimes. Though I hardly qualify as part of the generation NW is targeting.
@AlanMunn If I'm writing email, I tend to include question marks for what are grammatically sentences. But they are not really questions, either. Although I don't, in writing, do this unless there is, in fact, some degree of - not exactly uncertainty - but some sense of ', but isn't it?' Actually, is that even normal English? I don't think I'd ever literally say that in English. I think I use question marks where that construction would make sense to me in Welsh.
But my use of the question marks pre-dates my knowledge of that aspect of Welsh. At least - not entirely. But I wasn't as familiar with it, at least. But I'm sure it isn't dependent on the Welsh, even though I believe it is derived from it. Plenty of people speak that way who'd never speak a sentence (or a question) in Welsh.
@WillRobertson Probably I need to work out how to take proper options at the command line first! Ideally we'd have build check --engine=pdftex --halt-on-error <filename> or something like that
@PauloCereda Ideas on how to (quickly) implement command line argument grabbing in Lua? ^^^
@WillRobertson I'll log that and the wider issue (am waiting on some feedback on other 'immediate' LaTeX3 things, so it might happen quite quickly)
@JosephWright Sorry I was unclear! I just meant halting the checking process after the first test file fails to validate — much easier perhaps? E.g., I usually have a test file "aaa-loading.lvt" that just loads the package — if I've screwed up and you can't even load the package properly, it would be nice to skip all the subsequent tests that will also break :)
@WillRobertson All understood, but as an option this feels like something you want at the point of use ('Do all the tests' versus 'Just give up if anything fails')
@WillRobertson We could just alter the behaviour, of course: might be as well
@WillRobertson The argparse idea has been in my head for a while: adding the engine at the end of the check line is not great anyway
@WillRobertson If we only want a couple of optionals I can do them easily :-)
@cfr Well, people could conceivably use it in any place, but the main usage is standalone as part of a document title, so I suppose it’s OK to use “y” or “yr”. I’ll include that in my next release of Polyglossia; we can always disable it later if it looks silly.
@PauloCereda Tomten is Santa in Swedish – it was a slightly different character originally, but now he’s identified with Santa. The guy who sang that often presents the Christmas special on national TV. Actually, last year, he sang the schedule.
@PauloCereda That’s where I spend most of my evenings these days :-)
@PauloCereda But in this song he impersonates a rich kid from the posh area of Stockholm who complains that Santa is a communist because he deals out gifts to everyone indiscriminately, and ends by saying that the American should send out drones to blow up the North Pole.
@ChristianHupfer you don't see your avvy there, just your name? Ah I see, you point it out couple comments above. Have you tried Ctrl+F5 (i.e., recache your browser)?
@Arthur: sometimes I feel like I have no culture at all. I've never experienced going to an opera, a concert, a show. Most things I know are very superficial. It seems people around me are no interested. I don't know much of my own country's history apart from the things taught in school, my political knowledge is narrow, and the list goes on. (ctd)
@Arthur: When I went to Spain, I noticed something very unusual for me: people of all ages, regardless of social status, getting the very same level of access to culture. I could not even afford a ticket to a soccer match, let alone a ticket to an opera. And people were discussing politics in the streets, talking about books they've read, operas and concerts they've seen. I was in panic because I've never experienced this before.
@PauloCereda I can't compare with Brazil, but sometimes I feel like Germany doesn't have culture any longer too, if I compare with your descriptions about Spain
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@yo' I am sometimes disgusted about Co - Germans (;-)) Ok, I am not going to the Opera as well, but I am reading books, go to the cinema, read newspapers, visit museums, old castles... but we've got a bunch of people meanwhile which don't own a single book in their households, where education and culture are 'four-letter-words' (not literally of course)
@ChristianHupfer and the problem is: you've got a reason, with so much immigration. We haven't got a reason for it, we have ZERO experience with Muslim immigration, and yet we protest and protest and protest. I really understood recently how Hitler got the power in Germany in the 30s.
@PauloCereda That's a lot, especially if you don't get much from it. I mean, the taxes here (income tax, social security, VAT, import tax and excise) sum up to c. 50%, but you get quality heath system, reasonably good and free education, transportation services subsidized etc. Still I think we could get more :-(
@PauloCereda It’s hard for me to say because I don’t know the situation elsewhere, but surely you must have some opportunities in São Paulo? I would certainly hope that some of the cultural events would be affordable. Of course, in Europe we’re really privileged because the big cultural institutions usually have some level of support from the government, in exchange of which they have to offer some affordable tickets.
@PauloCereda In London the cheapest tickets for shows on the main stage at the Royal Opera House are under £10; during the Proms season there are over 1,000 tickets at £5 for each concert (standing, but with a very good view), etc. And as Joseph said, you don’t even need to go to the live show because almost everything is broadcast on the BBC and available on their website for free if you’re in the UK.
@PauloCereda But again, there must be things in Brazil as well that are affordable. For Knuth’s sake, the conductor of the São Paulo orchestra comes to the Proms every year (twice this year), it must be possible to hear in your city too! ;-)
@ArthurReutenauer I think the prices are almost the same considering the currency exchange, but do not forget that our currency is undervalued comparing to pounds. :) Besides, the average income of a typical Brazilian is low in general.
@yo' I want to see a pond full of ducks and I want to throw some bread crumbs!
@ArthurReutenauer See, I didn't know that! I blame the snow. :P
But needed to say, I prefer small theatres -- recently I went to the theatre of Prague Conservatory, and that was soooo good! They played a famous musical about Czechoslovak bandits after 1918 and they played (and sang) really well!
@ArthurReutenauer oh the underground culture :D One of the smallest concert scenes in Prague is in the Balbin poetic pub with capacity about 6 tables by 5 people :)
@yo' It was my girlfriend who planned it, when she told me the name of the theatre I thought “that’s funny, it sounds like a pub’s name” (for whatever reason King’s Head and Queen’s Head are very common pub names in England). And it was a pub’s name.
@cfr -- when you say "There's no standard for symbols or truth tables or anything much." do you mean "universally recognized" standard, or just within the community of logicians using latex? in particular, for symbols, are "recognized" symbols in unicode, or is there just no agreement on what symbols should be used for what concepts? (if there are recognized symbols that aren't in unicode, i can help.)
:23256740 Have to see how the rewrite goes: the core part is relatively easy, it's all the table stuff that's horrid. Then again, I spotted a trick in pgfplotstable I'll likely pick up
@yo' Next job is to recode the number formatter: that and the unit formatter are the core of siunitx. (Even the font stuff I wonder about: I might have been better taking a different tack there.)
Hey guys, is it ok for me to update an accepted answer with more info, or should I write my own? Is it ok to include answers that address users of orgmode here?
It looks like current version of beamer supports aspectratio option.
\documentclass[aspectratio=169]{beamer}
should do exactly that. Other possible values are: 1610, 149, 54, 43 and 32.
By default, it is to 128mm by 96mm(4:3).
I have the orgmode beamer entry that does this.
My first inclination was to update it, but what I know of SE sites, that's not usually the best thing to do, so I'm just going to add an answer if orgmode info is ok to give.
@AaronHall well, that isn't really a good answer to that question, is it? The problem is that it answers a completely different question: How do you pass arguments to \documentclass in emacs-orgmode?
While I do not know a way to do this with a LaTeX file, you can use #+SETUPFILE: file (http://orgmode.org/manual/In_002dbuffer-settings.html) to include an external org file in exporting. Then you can use #+LaTeX_HEADER: in the external org file.
For example, with the following in content.org:
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@egreg Hm, I've tried \xpatchcmd with some command which has some nested \if...\fi, but it did not succeed in patching,although I just wanted to add one ordinary line (vertical spacing).
@PauloCereda Your parcel is “on its way to Curitiba” according to the Royal Mail tracking page. Not sure why it would go there and not to São Paulo directly, but that’s what the website says (well, actually it says “ON IT WAY TOCURITIBA” and for a while I was looking for “Tocuritiba”).
@ArthurReutenauer Brazil has an unusual postal system. Or perhaps the flight entered Brazil through Curitiba, and then it will be forwarded to a distribution center in São Paulo. :)
@PauloCereda Karl sent a mail just today asking for the "copyright transfer" (basically, just asking us to allow them to publish the videos). You'll finally hear my bad accent :D
@morbusg Although I don't blame you for sticking to Mavericks, I don't think the situation with El Capitan is as dire as I first thought. Of course there's the minor issue of your Mac looking more and more like your phone (if you have an iPhone). But that started with Yosemite.
@PauloCereda I was worried when I heard that access to /usr was disallowed, because I interpreted that as /usr and everything below. But it's not that, it's just /usr at that level, Since access to /usr/local is still allowed, I think most things will be fine. Almost everything I have extra is in /usr/local since I've never been a fan of any of the package managery things I've tried.
@JosephWright In fact, had MacTeX put the link in /usr/local in the first place we would not be having this discussion at all. But that's ancient history.
@AlanMunn I had a quick look at how El Capitan works with its rootless mode and it seems an interest concept. The only thing that bothers me is the fact it could have some sort of exception list, not something like love it or leave it. It's like the endless discussion with the software firewalls like SELinux or AppArmour; turning them off is not that advisable.
@PauloCereda Well my intuition is that Apple actually know what they're doing. Because there are plenty of really sophisticated Mac users out there, and I don't think Apple will deliberately alienate them. I suspect for most of us it will have no ill-effects.
@PauloCereda Would you be opposed if I used arara as something to recreate in Clojure? This is mainly how I learn languages when there aren't pressing problems to solve :) After all, they say imitation is the highest form of flattery <3
Who knows, it might be concise enough to simplify arara-proper.
@Sean, to be completely honest with you, I had the same intention of rewriting arara in Clojure. The only reason I didn't do it is because Clojure required Java 1.6 and I wanted arara to remain Java 1.5 compliant (as 4.0 is already). But it is surely a great language to have fun.
That said, if you want to glue them together, import arara.jar into your Clojure code and use the classes and methods as your heart desires. So you can have something operational out of the box. :)
@SeanAllred Not a big concern, I'd say, because we are with Java 9 in the horizon. Maybe arara 5.0 will drop the 1.5 support.
@PauloCereda I wonder if Oracle has metrics for Java version adoption. If v1.5 really is that old (>10--15 years), I'd say 'bring on the future', personally.
@PauloCereda I've yet to really touch Java for a long time. I should really check out all these new features. Last time I was working with Java, we were getting pumped for 1.7!
@PauloCereda I've been watching a lot of talks on functional programming lately. It's been suggested that Java has dug itself so deeply into OOP that it can't really get out -- anonymous functions don't really fit the paradigm, so it's not surprising that they would be a little awkward.
@Sean: I remember those folks at Apache Commons writing functors, predicates, aggregators, etc, with Java 5. That's why I use their libraries a lot, those guys really work hard on their code. :)
@SeanAllred Quite possibly. :) When you have some spare time, take a look on how much languages are built in on top of JVM. When I wrote nightingale as a sandbox for arara, I used Groovy as rule language; that thing was insanely overpowered. :)
@SeanAllred They are! On the Google alley, their libraries change interfaces on every bloody version. It's very frustrating (that's even true with their App Engine APIs!).
Interesting little tidbit, by the way, regarding that OOP vs functional comment, is that the same guy (Guy Steele) who co-wrote the Scheme design and implementation, also wrote the original Java specification.
@JosephWright This is a matter of installing stuff, which i think is off-topic. tex.stackexchange.com/questions/258511/… Please see the comment i made a minute ago.
@JosephWright -- no, back at the office. arrived in providence late monday afternoon. still haven't unpacked my notes, though, so if there's something i need to be reminded about, please remind me. (task number one is "cleaning off" the old ams vax/vms machine; it's due to be unplugged about 1 september, and i've still got a lot of stuff regarding stix, tex bugs, and tugboat parked there.)
@barbarabeeton I really meant in terms of TeX support. I don't know if the symbols are in unicode or not. Also, I'm not sure if unicode goes by meaning or semantics e.g. if two symbols look the same but have different meanings, is that two unicode slots or one? One thing which lots of packages do is define logical symbols in terms of existing symbols. Unfortunately, they don't always do this correctly or consistently. And some symbols are defined by packages which construct them on-the-fly.
@cfr -- thanks for the clarification. unicode allegedly goes by meaning. they used to go (with respect to symbols, not alphabets) almost strictly by appearance, but faced with good examples showing two symbols with the same shape but different meanings/usages/spacing, in the same document, they were forced to change their tune. so now, two symbols that look the same but clearly have different functions will (or at least should) have two unicode slots.
i know the usage of latex packages isn't consistent; that's well demonstrated by examples in the comprehensive symbols list. i'm trying to nibble away at the edges of the problem, and since i still have good contacts on the unicode technical committee, can actually get things into their pipeline and likely to get them approved. so if you know someone who can make a competent review of unicode vs. logic, that could well be worth the effort.
@ChristianHupfer -- indeed. i have seen him on a bicycle around stanford, but i've never seen him with a bicycle helmet on. interesting ...
It looks like current version of beamer supports aspectratio option.
\documentclass[aspectratio=169]{beamer}
should do exactly that. Other possible values are: 1610, 149, 54, 43 and 32.
By default, it is to 128mm by 96mm(4:3).
While I do not know a way to do this with a LaTeX file, you can use #+SETUPFILE: file (http://orgmode.org/manual/In_002dbuffer-settings.html) to include an external org file in exporting. Then you can use #+LaTeX_HEADER: in the external org file.
For example, with the following in content.org:
...
